As you know, World War II began on September 1, 1939. At the same time, Nazi submarines went hunting in the North Atlantic. The famous "Battle of the Atlantic" began, during which caravans of ships going to England fiercely broke through the "wolf packs" of German submarines. Sometimes the Germans without a twinge of conscience sank ships of neutral countries, including American ones.
One day, Major Burroughs of US Naval Intelligence discovered that Standard Oil of New Jersey was the only US company whose ships were not being attacked by submarines. This discovery surprised Burroughs, and he conducted an investigation, which led to surprising results. One of the main raw materials that Hitler needed to fight the war was oil. It was this oil that Standard Oil supplied him. First, American tankers delivered oil to the Canary Islands, which belonged to a non-belligerent but Hitler-friendly Spain. From here, being Spanish property according to documents, the oil was transported to the Reich. In Germany, the oil was processed into fuel for submarines that sank American ships.
The stunned major sent the results of the investigation to Congress, but no sanctions followed against Standardoil. Too much weight among the Congressmen had the head of Standard Oil - the famous and all-powerful billionaire John Rockefeller! Moreover, Rockefeller did not hesitate to publicly declare that in The Hague he met with Hermann Schmitz, the chairman of the board of the German corporation IG Farbenindustri, which held a leading position in the Hitlerite military-industrial complex. And not just met, but concluded a contract with IG Farben for the supply of 25,000 tons of ammonium sulfate and 10,000 tons of cotton for the production of explosives to Germany through third countries.
Hitler's best friend
Mark Twain, who expressed this thought, did not even suspect how much he would be a seer. The Americans managed to trade with Hitler not only before the US entered World War II, but even after!
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War is business, and business is profit
The first to follow this principle was the same "Standard Oil", carrying out deliveries to Germany until December 1942, that is, a whole year after the start of the war between the United States and Germany. At this time, the American army was suffocating from the lack of the very strategic raw materials that went to the Nazis, but Rockefeller invariably answered all accusations: "I value my reputation as an honest man and cannot violate the contract."
Now they do not like to recall such behavior of their own citizens in the United States, but the facts are so blatant that it is impossible to hide them. For example, in the late 90s of the XX century against the concern "International Business Machines" (IBM) in the district court of New York opened a criminal case for military cooperation of the concern with the Hitlerite Reich.
It turns out that IBM's electronic products helped to support the military operations of the Wehrmacht, and in concentration camps - to "calculate" the number of prisoners and candidates for burning in ovens. "So what? - without a shadow of embarrassment, IBM's lawyers parried all accusations. This has been known for a long time. IBM even put these calculators on display at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC."
In 1943, Thomas Watson was awarded the Cross of Honor of the German Eagle with a star and the title of "Friend of Nazi Germany" for his services "in cleansing the nation"
It should be noted that the head of the concern, Thomas Watson, was so fond of the Hitlerite elite that in 1943 he was awarded the Cross of Honor of the German Eagle with a Star and the title of “Friend of Nazi Germany” for his services “in cleansing the nation”. The ashes of the millions of concentration camps burned in furnaces clearly did not knock in the hearts of the IBM leaders …